Monday, February 24, 2014

2_Arthur Schopenhauer - Quotes

Birthplace House in Gdansk










“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”


“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude”


“It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer”


“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ”


“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”


“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”


“I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.”


“Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties”


“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”


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